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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Services (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government is firmly committed to public water services remaining in public ownership, as reflected in the Water Services Acts and in the Water Services Policy Statement 2018-2025. There is widespread support for this view, and the report of the Joint Committee on Future Funding of Domestic Water Services in April 2017 supported the concept of a referendum. The committee recommended...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Services (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government is committed to public water services remaining in public ownership. There is no doubt about that. I accept people might be frustrated with the time that this is taking but there are risks here, as the Deputy has identified. There are risks to private wells, risks to group water schemes and risks to the operation of Irish Water itself. For a number of months, I have been...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 26, 38 and 58 together. Qualified households on social housing waiting lists can have a wide variety of housing needs and it is therefore important that there is a blend of social housing delivery mechanisms available that can meet those diverse needs in the most effective manner.  Under Rebuilding Ireland, the aim is to meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan launched on 1 February 2018. Prior to its launch, an initial tranche of €200 million of long-term fixed-rate finance was borrowed by the Housing Finance Agency to provide funds for the scheme to local authorities. When the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan was initially being developed it was estimated that the drawdown of loans under the scheme would be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department is continuing its work on the issue of reclassification, by Eurostat, of the majority of Tier 3 Approved Housing Bodies as part of the Government sector for accounting purposes.  It is engaging with the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, with technical support from the Housing Finance Agency (HFA) and the Housing Agency (HA), in order to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The vacant site levy measure was introduced by the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015.  As part of an on-going oversight and review of the levy, the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018 introduced amendments to the 2015 Act, which collectively aimed to further strengthen the vacant site levy provisions.  The amendments included provisions to increase the rate of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Development Agency (LDA) was established on 13 September 2018 by way of Establishment Order under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971. As set out in Section 6(12) of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, the LDA, being a public body as set out under Section 6(1) of the FOI Act, is not subject to FOI until a maximum of 6 months have passed since the date of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) was launched as part of Project Ireland 2040 to support the compact growth and sustainable development of Ireland’s five cities, regional drivers and other large urban centres, with €2 billion available to 2027.  A total of 189 applications were submitted to my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under the Public Spending Code, project sponsoring bodies, such as Dublin City Council, must prepare an economic appraisal, such as a cost benefit analysis or a cost effectiveness analysis, for current and capital expenditure projects or programmes costing €20m or more. In the case of large-scale social housing projects, my Department reviews such appraisals, as the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In line with the commitment given in Rebuilding Ireland, a review of the operation of the first 12 months of the Tenant Purchase (Incremental) Scheme has been completed and a full report has been prepared setting out findings and recommendations.  I hope to be in a position to publish the review shortly, following consideration of a number of implementation issues arising. My...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Local authorities have been advised in Guidelines on Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, issued under section 28 of the Act in January 2017, that the priority option to be pursued in relation to Part V agreements is the acquisition of social housing on the site which is the subject of the planning permission. However, in some cases acquiring homes on the development site is not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Controls (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 42 and 44 together. Affordability remains a significant issue in the rental market. Continued economic and population growth coupled with inward migration and a constrained supply of housing contribute to upward pressures on rents. The Strategy for the Rental Sector, published in December 2016, introduced the Rent Predictability Measure to moderate rent...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The purpose of the voids programme, funded by my Department, is to support local authorities in returning vacant social homes to use as quickly as possible, particularly homes that would likely remain vacant for a significant period of time because of the cost of the works required. My Department does not collate data on the letting history of local authority properties submitted for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018 is currently before the Oireachtas and completed Second Stage in the Dáil recently.  Given that the current legislative basis for the levying and collection of rates is spread over a number of enactments, some dating back to the 19th century, the Bill contains proposals for modernisation of the legislation governing commercial rates. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Under Rebuilding Ireland, some 50,000 additional social housing homes will be delivered through build, acquisition and leasing schemes over the period 2016-2021. In addition, a further 87,000 households will be supported under the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) and the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme. Overall targets for each local authority are directly...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 50 and 51 together. Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority area are provided in the statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments, an exercise which has been carried out on an annual basis since 2016.  The 2018 assessment shows that 71,858 households were assessed as qualified and being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Development Agency (LDA) was established on 13 September 2018 by way of Establishment Order under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971. On establishment, the LDA had access to an initial tranche of 8 publicly owned sites that have near term delivery potential for 3,000 new homes and an additional potential for 7,000 new homes. The LDA will also be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Statistical information in relation to social housing delivery across all delivery streams, including rapid delivery, is published on my Department's website at the following link: . Statistical information for the full year 2018 has just been published and is available at: . At the end of 2018, 423 homes had been delivered under the rapid delivery programme. Since the programme's inception,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: A range of housing options are necessary to ensure a supply of accommodation to meet different types of social housing need. Harnessing the off-balance sheet potential of private investment in social housing is an important objective of the Government and the social housing targets set out in Rebuilding Ireland over the period to 2021 reflect the ambition in that regard.   My...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government’s Water Services Policy Statement 2018-2025 sets the broad policy context for the development of water services, including the position of Irish Water as the single, publicly owned national water services authority. This is consistent with the recommendations made by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services in 2017, and the...